Wine Grower (2231)
OPINION: Rachael Cook is the smiling grape grower on this month’s cover, tending vines on the miniscule, beautiful and dream-driven vineyard she and her husband Murray have created on an east facing hillside of Marlborough’s Brancott Valley.
The new year signals with the hum of activity ramping up on the vineyard and in the winery, as vintage 2024 gets underway.
When a biosecurity incursion is identified, many things need to be done very quickly in order to stop the spread and eradicate a new invasive pest or disease before populations grow to a level where eradication is no longer a feasible option.
Helping members navigate the upcoming Regulations
An unsettled end to 2023 has given way to a milder and drier January for most regions.
Surprisingly awesome, says James Dicey when asked about the Central Otago outlook for Vintage 2024.
OPINION: Drops of God is a mini-series about a large wine inheritance and the civilised battle between a Japanese wine enthusiast, Issei, and a French woman whose nose bleeds when she tastes wine.
OPINION: At 47 years of age Nicholas Paris has achieved far more than most of us hope to in a lifetime.
When two Northern Irishmen born 50 years and 50-ish kilometres apart from each other fall for the same beguiling grape, 20,000km from home in Central Otago, the only decent thing to do is become firm friends. Claire Finlayson talks to Alan Brady and Brian Shaw about a company that’s name is a nod to their collective pluck.
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Michelle Richardson has travelled something of a full circle since Sir George Fistonich offered her a job at Villa Maria more than 30 years ago.
"The Marlborough wine industry has been extremely kind to me," says James Healy, 32 years after he pulled up in an iridescent green Holden Premier packed with his family and belongings.
The Bragato Research Institute Research Winery has helped Marlborough's Loveblock winery refine the use of oenological tannins, specifically tannin extracted from green tea.
When Peggy Tsai’s horticulture degree took her to one of the few wineries in Taiwan, it set her on a path to “winederland”.
